On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:

> * De: Paul Schenkeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-09-22 ]
>       [ Subjecte: Just a wild idea ]
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've been playing with jails for over 2 years now.  I really like
> > them but we often use them to run a process as root with reduced
> > power only to get access to TCP and UDP ports below 1024.
> > 
> > For many applications however, for example lpd, named, sendmail,
> > tac_plus and others, it would be more than good enough to run that
> > program as a normal, non-root user provided there is a way to bind
> > to that single low TCP and/or UDP port that the program needs access
> > to.

better to have a definition of what are restricted ports for each jail
than to redefine what root is....

(1024 numbers is only 32 words of bitmask)

(just my opinion)






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